The Languages of Anglo-Saxon Charters Database

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GENERAL

1303
https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter/1303.html
from:
963
to:
963
Oswald, bishop, to Ælfric, his minster; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Cotheridge, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. A note, in English, names Æthelsige, son of Ælfric, as the second life, and one of his male descendants as the third.
Worcester
X

Bibliography | List of Abbreviations

  • Abing Charters of Abingdon Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 7–8, 2 vols (Oxford, 2000–1)
  • ASChart Anglo-Saxon Charters, ed. A. J. Robertson, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1956)
  • Bascombe K. Bascombe, ´Two Charters of King Suebred of Essex', in An Essex Tribute: Essays presented to Frederick G. Emmison, ed. K. Neale (London, 1987), pp. 85–96
  • Bates Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset, ed. E. H. Bates, Somerset Record Society 14 (1899)
  • Bath Charters of Bath and Wells, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 13 (Oxford, 2007)
  • BCS W. de G. Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, 3 vols (London, 1885–93)
  • Burt Charters of Burton Abbey, ed. P. H. Sawyer, Anglo–Saxon Charters 2 (Oxford, 1979)
  • CantCC Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 17–18, 2 vols (Oxford, 2013)
  • CantStA Charters of St Augustine´s Abbey, Canterbury, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 4 (Oxford, 1995)
  • Chert Charters of Chertsey Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 19 (Oxford, 2015)
  • Finberg ECW H. P. R. Finberg, The Early Charters of Wessex (Leicester, 1964)
  • Glast Charters of Glastonbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 15 (Oxford, 2012)
  • KCD J. M. Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici, 6 vols (London, 1839–48)
  • LondStP Charters of St Paul´s, London, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 10 (Oxford, 2004)
  • Malm Charters of Malmesbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 11 (Oxford, 2005)
  • North Charters of Northern Houses, ed. D. A. Woodman, Anglo–Saxon Charters 16 (Oxford, 2012)
  • Pet Charters of Peterborough, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 14 (Oxford, 2009)
  • Roch Charters of Rochester, ed. A. Campbell, Anglo–Saxon Charters 1 (London, 1973)
  • SEHD Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, ed. F. E. Harmer (Cambridge, 1914)
  • Sel Charters of Selsey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 6 (Oxford, 1998)
  • Shaft Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 5 (Oxford, 1995)
  • Sherb Charters of Sherborne, ed. M. A. O´Donovan, Anglo–Saxon Charters 3 (Oxford, 1988)
  • StAlb Charters of St Albans Abbey, ed. J. Crick, Anglo–Saxon Charters 12 (Oxford, 2007)
  • Wells Charters of Bath and Wells, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo–Saxon Charters 13 (Oxford, 2007)
  • Wills Anglo–Saxon Wills, ed. Dorothy Whitelock (Cambridge, 1930)
  • WinchNM Charters of the New Minster, Winchester, ed. S. Miller, Anglo–Saxon Charters 9 (Oxford, 2001)
  • Writs Anglo–Saxon Writs, ed. F. E. Harmer (Manchester, 1952), reprinted with an addition (Stamford, 1989)

BCS 1106
No
Archbishop/Bishop
No

LANGUAGE

Latin with Limited OE: Topographical Term(s) | Latin with Limited OE: Other Term(s) | Latin with Limited OE: Self-Contained Passage(s)
Old English
Old English
Latin
No Pre-Conquest Endorsement
No
No
Old English rubric. Old English preposition 'æt' in main text. Old English passage in main text: 'On thæt gerad [...] butan ceape'. Old English passage following the Latin witness list ('Ic Ælfric [...] hand.') noting Æthelsige as the second life, and one of his male descendants as the third.

For language use in Oswald's leases, see Robert Gallagher and Francesca Tinti, 'Latin, Old English, and documentary practice at Worcester from Wærferth to Oswald', Anglo-Saxon England 46, p. 306. For Oswald's formulaic structures, see Francesca Tinti, 'Writing Latin and Old English in Tenth-Century England: Patterns, Formulae and Language Choice in the Leases of Oswald of Worcester', in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Rory Naismith and David Woodman (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 311-312. (Group E; eleven leases).